Tuesday’s 85 minute total lunar eclipse was North America’s last until 2025. Here's what it looked like from across the night-side of Earth.
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Eclipses don’t happen every month because the Moon’s orbit of Earth is tilted by 5º to the ecliptic, so usually the New Moon is above or below the Sun and the full Moon is above or below Earth’s shadow.... [+]During the event the seventh planet Uranus was close to the lunar disk and was glimpsed by observers with a keen eye for the tiny blue-green object. From parts of Asia and Alaska the Moon occulted Uranus, hiding it from view while the Moon was in totality....
The only light that reaches the lunar surface during a total lunar eclipse is first filtered by the Earth’s atmosphere. Short-wavelength blue light from the Sun hits molecules in Earth’s atmosphere and scatters, but longer-wavelength red and orange light mostly travels right through, striking fewer molecules.... [+]
on May 15, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. The eclipse coincided with a super moon which occurs when the moon is at its closest point to earth. a total lunar eclipse was 2017, but they take a break for a few years. The next total lunar eclipse is on March 14, 2025 when totality will last for 65 minutes—and be visible from North America.... [+]The next longest totality to Tuesday’s will be a 102-minute event on June 26, 2029.
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